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Isolation of Putative Progenitor Endothelial Cells for Angiogenesis

1997 • 8,673 citations

The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains

1961 • 7,886 citations

Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts

1990 • 5,530 citations

Extension of Life-Span by Introduction of Telomerase into Normal Human Cells

1998 • 4,845 citations

Bone Marrow Origin of Endothelial Progenitor Cells Responsible for Postnatal Vasculogenesis in Physiological and Pathological Neovascularization

1999 • 3,280 citations

A simplified system for generating recombinant adenoviruses

1998 • 3,179 citations

Ischemia- and cytokine-induced mobilization of bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells for neovascularization

1999 • 2,425 citations

Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Homologs from Fission Yeast and Human

1997 • 2,256 citations

Transplantation ofex vivoexpanded endothelial progenitor cells for therapeutic neovascularization

2000 • 1,869 citations

VEGF contributes to postnatal neovascularization by mobilizing bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells

1999 • 1,852 citations

hEST2, the Putative Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Gene, Is Up-Regulated in Tumor Cells and during Immortalization

1997 • 1,786 citations

Telomere reduction in human colorectal carcinoma and with ageing

1990 • 1,672 citations

Evidence for Circulating Bone Marrow-Derived Endothelial Cells

1998 • 1,666 citations

The HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor simvastatin activates the protein kinase Akt and promotes angiogenesis in normocholesterolemic animals.

2000 • 1,427 citations

Therapeutic Potential of Ex Vivo Expanded Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Myocardial Ischemia

2001 • 1,239 citations

Nitric oxide synthase modulates angiogenesis in response to tissue ischemia.

1998 • 1,191 citations

Efficient generation of recombinant adenoviruses using adenovirus DNA-terminal protein complex and a cosmid bearing the full-length virus genome.

1996 • 804 citations

Absence of cancer–associated changes in human fibroblasts immortalized with telomerase

1999 • 798 citations

Cellular Senescence

2000 • 743 citations

Mouse model of angiogenesis.

1998 • 669 citations

Telomerase expression in human somatic cells does not induce changes associated with a transformed phenotype

1999 • 658 citations

Endothelial Progenitor Cell Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Transfer for Vascular Regeneration

2002 • 587 citations

Isolation of a Candidate Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Gene, Which Reveals Complex Splicing Patterns in Different Cell Types

1997 • 586 citations

Human Endothelial Cell Life Extension by Telomerase Expression

1999 • 491 citations

Human telomerase contains evolutionarily conserved catalytic and structural subunits

1997 • 476 citations

Rescue of Diabetes-Related Impairment of Angiogenesis by Intramuscular Gene Therapy with Adeno-VEGF

1999 • 473 citations

Laser Doppler perfusion imaging by dynamic light scattering

1993 • 442 citations

Expression of TERT in early premalignant lesions and a subset of cells in normal tissues

1998 • 386 citations

The two-stage mechanism controlling cellular senescence and immortalization

1992 • 377 citations

Distribution and diversity of Na-K-Cl cotransport proteins: a study with monoclonal antibodies

1995 • 369 citations

Evidence from a leukaemia model for maintenance of vascular endothelium by bone-marrow-derived endothelial cells

2000 • 346 citations

Nitric Oxide Activates Telomerase and Delays Endothelial Cell Senescence

2000 • 311 citations

eNOS Activity Is Reduced in Senescent Human Endothelial Cells

2001 • 272 citations

Impaired Collateral Vessel Development Associated With Reduced Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in ApoE ^−/− Mice

1999 • 266 citations

Telomeres, telomerase and senescence

1990 • 260 citations

Laser-Doppler perfusion imaging of microvascular blood flow in rabbit tenuissimus muscle

1995 • 56 citations